Jane Stillwater is a freelance journalist, war correspondent, blogger, political Cassandra and author of "Bring Your Own Flak Jacket: Helpful Tips for Touring Today's Middle East," now available on Amazon.com. Her latest motto is "Stop Wall Street and War Street from destroying our world."

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Do unto Syria as you would have Syria do unto you

While walking through the streets of San Francisco the other day and
totally admiring this beautiful city's "painted lady" architectural
glory, I suddenly and
inexplicably started wondering what this amazing place might look like
if it too had been bombed all to crap in the same manner
that Damascus has been bombed to all to crap by all those missiles and
cluster-bombs and Al Qaeda operatives that American taxpayers are
paying for -- as they happily torture, rape and/or maim women and children in our name.

And this sudden unexpected vision of beautiful San Francisco as a
bombed-out ruin has even further strengthened my resolve to do
everything that I can to
prevent America's ruthless War Street from spending
our money on bombing other countries -- lest something like this
happens to
our beloved San Francisco too. Or to my own beloved Berkeley.

We need to stop all this expensive, bloody and worthless slaughter
and seriously consider a far, far better alternative instead: "Do unto Syria what we would have Syria do
unto us."

And let's also consider what corporate America's current utter lack of a "Do
unto Africa as we would have Africa do unto us" policy would do to us here if it also was reversed? Can you even imagine what it would be like in America if what happens in Africa today daily was
happening here too? Really? Would we
Americans love to be perpetually in debt to the world bank, have our
lands and resources seized by neo-colonialists, our crops polluted
with GMOs, millions of our women and children raped and killed, and our
pristine forests turned into a dumping ground for
nuclear and industrial waste? Hardly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydDBl_UlpQ&feature=youtu.be

And while we're at it, let's also "Do unto Israel as we would have
Israel do unto us." America's relationship to Israel right now sucks
eggs for the Israelis. And what exactly is this relationship? It might
be easier to understand if we look at it from a different perspective
and if our roles were reversed.

Imagine, for instance,
that some huge gonzo super-power on the other side of the world was
pumping billions
and billions and billions of dollars into America's economy annually --
but with only one stipulation: That all this gigantic wad of free
Moola can only be used for one purpose: To kill, torture, maim and and
jail Native Americans. And steal their land. And establish an American
Gestapo defense force and fund SSettlers to take over what few Indian
reservations we have left (after 19 million Native Americans have
already been slaughtered here already), and to treat native Americans
like animals and to napalm their children. And to do this all in the
name of God. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTrbVf6SrCc

Would we, as Native Americans -- or even as just plain American
citizens -- see the cruelty and injustice in this? Or would we just
sell out to all those big bucks thrown our way like the Israelis have;
and just relax and glorify in the joy of having a vampire-like power
over others who are completely at our mercy?

These same choices are the
ones that America's War Street is forcing Israelis to make every day.
And so far, most Israelis seem to have chosen blood-money over the Ten
Commandments.
What a
waste.

And also let's consider another new perspective:
"Do unto
nature and the environment what we would have nature and the
environment do unto us." Always remember that Nature bats last. Think
Fukushima. Think a thousand more hurricanes like
Sandy, Haiyan and Katrina. More fracking earthquakes. More 140-degree
days. "Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, the commander of the United
States
Pacific Command, [stated] that global climate change was the greatest
threat the
United States faced — more dangerous than terrorism, Chinese hackers
and North Korean nuclear missiles." http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/?src=recg&amp;_r=3&amp;

And America's War Street and Wall Street and related skin-flint tax-dodging huge
corporations are obviously not clear on the concept of "Do unto
Americans as you would have Americans do unto you" either.

In the 1940s, every American sacrificed their comfort and rationed their goods and
went without in order to pay for the "Good War".

And yet most Americans these days do nothing to protect themselves from
being cheated, robbed and exploited, but rather spend their last
decaying days as citizens of a formerly economically-viable democracy
happily watching pseudo-myths and fables on Fox News -- as our beloved
country slowly slips into third-world status. "Welcome to Jakarta." http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/22/chilean-socialism-1-indonesian-fascism-0/

Are we finally getting the Big Picture here yet -- that what goes around comes around?
If Americans continue to let Wall Street and War Street run our domestic policies, our foreign
policies and our environmental policies, then all we can ever expect to receive is blood and carnage in return.

"The Bible tells us so."

PS:
Denmark, a country generally known to be a socialist/commie anti-war
environmentally-conscious female-honoring democratic single-payer
Tea-Party nightmare, has just been declared "The Happiest Country on
Earth". However, you will find no countries at all that are currently under the sway of corporate America at the top of this Happy
List -- not even
America itself. And definitely not any countries that corporate War
Street has invaded in the last 40 years! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/22/denmark-happiest-country_n_4070761.html

But changing from one economic system such as America's current Corporate Welfare state to
another such as Denmark's economic democracy is clearly not going to help us either http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20254-meet-americas-biggest-welfare-queens.
We need to make even bigger changes, and go from using any economic system for judging
our success and failure -- to utilizing a philosophical system instead,
one such as "Do unto others..."

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